Neil,<br><br>Other than complaining about being old or a &quot;pre-fail&quot; state, it passes the smart check.&nbsp; Not sure if any of this actually means something.<br><br>Benno,<br><br>I'll have to try that for a while and see what happens.&nbsp; It will take some time to see if it works properly.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Benno Schulenberg</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:benno.schulenberg@gmail.com">benno.schulenberg@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jason Weisberger wrote:<br>&gt; Odd problem....&nbsp;&nbsp;it seems as if almost completely at random, my<br>&gt; boot process will stop at Mounting Local Filesystems...... for no<br>&gt; reason.&nbsp;&nbsp;It will freeze there until you restart the computer.&nbsp;&nbsp;If
<br>&gt; I boot a Live CD and mount the volume or run an fsck.ext3 on it<br>&gt; (which always comes back clean), the next time I try to boot to<br>&gt; it, it'll be fine.<br><br>Try marking the affected partition as ext2 instead of ext3
<br>in /etc/fstab, so the journal does not get used, and see if the<br>problem still occurs.&nbsp;&nbsp;If not, you've found a bug in ext3.<br><br>Benno<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list
<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jason Weisberger<br><a href="mailto:jbdubbs@gmail.com">jbdubbs@gmail.com</a>